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	Geisha : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs.
		Dalby did not elaborate much on her experiences leads me to believe that she didn't have many experiences and was not taken very seriously as a geisha at all.
		Dalby adresses the paradox that the women considered the most servile in Japan are also those with the most freedom, and by the time the book is finished it's no longer a paradox, really.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/ASIN/0520204956/Geisha.html (880 words)

	Kimono: Fashioning Culture : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		Dalby offers a carefully researched history of kimono, mouth-watering excerpts from a seventeenth-century Japanese fashion magazine, interviews with modern kimono wearers, and illustrations that are informative rather than blandly pretty.
		Dalby deftly dissects the subtle differences-the length of a sleeve, the placement of a collar-that proclaim a woman's age, class, marital status, and personal taste.
		Dalby writes about the look and feel of kimono with the authority of personal experience; while researching her doctoral dissertation in a geisha community in Kyoto (the basis of her previous book, Geisha), she wore kimono every day.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/0295981555/Kimono:_Fashioning_Culture.html (172 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Liza Dalby
		Dalby was a consultant on Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha, and she'll do the same job on Steven Spielberg's upcoming film adaptation of the bestselling novel.
		In a project Dalby calls "literary archaeology," she used the existing fragments of Murasaki's diary to create a novelistic reconstruction of the woman's life.
		Liza Dalby speaks on Friday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.08.00/genji-0023.html (733 words)

	KJ Selections
		Dalby's 1983 book, Geisha, is regarded as the definitive study on the subject and certainly, she is seen as "the geisha expert" in the West.
		Dalby has Murasaki spending the end of her life as a Buddhist nun living in a simple dwelling near Kiyomizu temple, having escaped the attention and pressure that Genji had placed on her.
		Dalby feels that the western concept of the novel has historical details "sprinkled on like seasonings." She says that including the details of everyday life are important so modern readers can understand what was valued and appreciated in Heian society.
	www.kyotojournal.org /kjselections/murasaki.html (2668 words)

	Dream Weaver / After a vision at night, `Geisha' author completes novel about Japanese writer Murasaki
		Dalby, a cultural anthropologist and author of ``Geisha'' and ``Kimono: Fashioning Culture,'' pieced together Murasaki's life using Murasaki's diary, her poems and, of course, ``The Tale of Genji,'' an enduring masterpiece about the romantic adventures of Heian heartthrob Prince Genji.
		Dalby imagines that, disenchanted with her fame and dogged by Genji and the demands of her readers, Murasaki decides to take Buddhist vows and retire to a convent.
		Dalby is quick to point out that ``Geisha'' is a sober study of geisha and the culture that begat these elusive figures -- not a tell-all about her life as Ichigiku.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/01//EB107718.DTL (1623 words)

	Liza Dalby biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liza Dalby first went to Japan as a teenager, spending a year with a family in Saga City, on the southernmost island of Kyushu.
		After spending six months on interviews and historical research, Liza found the geisha had come to accept her seriousness and seemed to think she might be someone who could articulate their own point of view to a western audience.
		Liza brought baby Owen (the wonderful result of the horrible pregnancy) along to Kyoto for the on-site filming, and American Geisha starring Pam Dawber was first aired in the fall of 1985.
	www.lizadalby.com /biography.htm (974 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Liza Dalby
		Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture.
		Liza Dalby's new novel, THE TALE OF MURASAKI retells the story of historical figure Murasaki Shikibu, the woman who wrote the world's first novel.
		Dalby is more than just an author and historian --- she was also the first Western woman to train and become a geisha, so her novel rings true on many levels.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-dalby-liza.asp (1217 words)

	Stanford Magazine: May/June 2001: Author, Author
		Liza Dalby spent a year with a family in Saga, the southernmost island of Kyushu, Japan, absorbing a culture that had always fascinated her.
		She recalls "a soup of liquid jade rimmed with froth and presented, like a jewel, in a chunky bowl meant to be received with both hands." Their teacher's wife would whip the frothy tea, chanting "sara sara sara chin" in ritual imitation of the sounds made by the bamboo whisk.
		Dalby and I leave her sunken living room, with its unconventional taxidermy projects--Dalby's offbeat hobby was her answer to a brutal writer's block--and its piano strewn with sheaves of music (Dalby's husband and three kids are accomplished musicians; Dalby sticks to her shamisen).
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2001/mayjun/shelf_life/author_author.html (1148 words)

	The Comfort Zone - 4/05/2002: Deciphering the Folds: The Kimono
		Liza Dalby is a cultural anthropologist and novelist who has spent years immersed in Japanese culture, and even received training as a geisha.
		Using the tools of the anthropologist, Liza Dalby touches on ways in which a whole way of life might be read, outwards, from specific pieces of material culture.
		Liza Dalby also used the social meaning of the kimono as one way of accessing the culture of eleventh-century Japan, the subject of her novel The Tale of Murasaki.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/czone/stories/s546973.htm (262 words)

	H-Net Review: William B Huntley on The Tale of Murasaki: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dalby suggests her novel was by piecing fragments of Murakaki's diary into "an imagined reminiscence, much as an ancient vase might be reconstructed by setting the original fragments into a vessel of modern clayóa sort of literary archaeology" (p xiii)
		Dalby also reminded us that the name of Murasaki was given to the author by the readers of her novel a thousand years ago when they came to love the child "Murasaki" who was first adopted by and the married to Prince Genji.
		Dalby's great achievement is in the development of the fictional Murasaki in bringing readers to the same point in Murasaki's life when the historical Empress had a child.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61711011642541 (1667 words)

	Biblio File September 5, 2002
		Dalby is scheduled to speak on the cultural significance of kimono and its often subtle indicators of social class and age in a free public lecture tonight at 7 p.m.
		Dalby is the author of an earlier book, Geisha ($16.15 in paper from the University of California Press) which details her experiences in the mid 70s as a graduate student in anthropology, reportedly the only Westerner ever to become a geisha.
		Dalby continues to evoke the traditional culture of Japan in a recently published novel, The Tale of Murasaki ($14 in paper from Knopf), the story of Murasaki Shikibu, creator of the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, in the eleventh century.
	www.butte.cc.ca.us /~barnettd/09_05_2002.html (694 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Tale of Murasaki" by Liza Dalby
		Liza Dalby's "The Tale of Murasaki" imagines the life of Genji's creator, Murasaki Shikibu, in a fictional memoir that takes the form of a poetic diary.
		Ultimately, Murasaki's literary prowess wins her a much-coveted position at court, where she is initially dazzled by but soon becomes disenchanted with the gossip, petty politics and sexual peccadilloes of the imperial circle, and discovers, sadly, that the real is far less compelling than her romantic ideal.
		Dalby does a fine job of depicting odd but fascinating practices such as teeth darkening, in which fashionable ladies mixed iron filings and sake to achieve an alluring, fl-as-night smile, and her descriptions of the many-layered gowns, whose color combinations have names like "Flowering Iris," are often breathtaking.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2000/07/12/dalby/print.html (785 words)

	LUNCH WITH THE AMERICAN GEISHA
		Dalby -- that 5-foot-7-inch Fulbright student -- is now married with three children, and lives in Berkeley, but she will always be known as the American Geisha -- the only foreigner ever to have become a geisha.
		Dalby tells me of arriving in Japan to research the geisha for her dissertation.
		Her fluency in Japanese (she was in the country for a year in her teens and for her junior year of college) and the fact that she played the shamisen, the long-necked three-string instrument associated with geisha, put her over the top, geisha-wise.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a/2004/06/20/PKGKE76OE61.DTL (763 words)

	Amazon.com: Kimono: Fashioning Culture: Books: Liza Crihfield Dalby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Dalby spent a year as a geisha in Kyoto in the 1970s, she found that the most difficult part of her work was wearing the kimono.
		Dalby is particularly concerned with how the confining robe in which women can't, among other things, cross their legs clashed with creeping Westernization in the last century, giving rise to such controversies as the 1920s skirmish over what kind of underwear should properly be worn with the kimono.
		Dalby, author of Geisha (Univ. of California Pr., 1983), has written a lively, informative study of the kimono, tracing its evolution throughout Japanese history to its current status as the national dress of Japan.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0295981555?v=glance (1337 words)

	Tale of Murasaki, the - Lisa Dalby - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Liza Dalby is the first Western woman to achieve the official title of Geisha.
		Dalby is his personal Geisha advisor (I didn't mean that to sound as lewd as it did).
		Although fiction, the book by Liza Dalby is based on fragments of Murasaki's diary and Dalby has used both historical evidence and her own imagination to re-build the world Murasaki would have lived in.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/tale-of-murasaki-the-lisa-dalby (298 words)

	Geisha: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Liza Dalby's effort here is to portray the life a Geisha through the eyes of a cultural anthropologist.
		Dalby does a masterful job in showing Western culture the ins and outs of the Japanese geisha society and does an excellent job correcting many of the misconceptions about geishas.
		Dalby especial praise for her excellent detail and descriptions on the meaning of kimono, for which there must have been enough because she wrote an entire book dedicated to that subject matter.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0520204956.html (1894 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: The Tale of Murasaki
		Liza Dalby got lost in Genji, too, with the same result.
		She went on to live and study in Japan, was the first foreigner ever to become a geisha and is the author of two authoritative studies of aspects of Japanese culture, Geisha and Kimono.
		This is Dalby's Murasaki to a T: a lady with a "reputation for erudition, not charm," as she wryly puts it.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/books/reviews/taleofmurasaki0724.htm (801 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Japan - As the World Sees It: 2001
		Liza Dalby as Ichigiku of Pontocho, left, and as she is today.
		While in her 20s, Dalby, an American, became the first and only Westerner to enter the so-called "world of willows and flowers." Researching geisha for a doctorate in anthropology, she became one herself: Ichigiku of Pontocho.
		Dalby is also the author of "The Tale of Murasaki" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000), a historical novel set in 11th- century Japan featuring the heroine, Lady Murasaki Shikibu.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/japan_view/int_geisha.html (1618 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Liza Dalby, author of the highly acclaimed Geisha and Tale of Murasaki, traces the history of kimono-its uses, aesthetics, and social meanings-to explore Japanese culture.
		Dalby has a great deal to tell, starting with her contention that clothing and wearer merge in Japan more than in most places.
		[Dalby's] book's coverage includes all types of 'native' dress, past and present; her unique position as a Western 'insider' allows her to demystify the complex social mores connected with wearing the kimono.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/DALKIM.html (449 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Geisha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liza Dalby transports her readers into another world, and is an excellent tour guide.
		Written by anthropologist Dalby, who has the distinction of being the only Westerner to become a geisha, this book deftly synthesizes the personal experiences and interactions of the author in this most unusual role and society with the discerning eye of a scholar.
		If a reader read this book and no others on the subject, he or she would still be well informed about the geisha world, as well as entranced by its mystery, made somewhat less elusive by Liza Dalby's sensitive tour of the inner corridors of the hanamachi of Kyoto.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394728939 (839 words)

	Kimono: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liza Dalby describes the kimono's transformation from daily clothing to formal wear over the course of the 20th century.
		I have to be honest I bought it because Liza Dalby wrote the introduction and because Arthur Golden was quoted saying it was a good book.
		Having read the books by Liza Dalby and Arthur Golden I wanted to see some pictures of kimono and geisha that were more than just snapshots.
	www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/907482241X.html (378 words)

	Geisha: a review
		It isn't enough to intellectually "understand" about the complex connectedness; you have to have lived it, breathed it, and, to the extent possible for a non-Japanese (or for that matter Japanese of the younger generations), internalized it.
		This is what Dalby has succeeded most admirably in doing in the world of the geisha and she has the skill and wit to convey a taste of "it" to the reader.
		Dalby comments: "Even when [she] felt she was chided unfairly by an older geisha, Sakurako knew that the proper response in this hierarchical world was to bow her head meekly and accept criticism.
	www.koryubooks.com /books/geisha.html (1040 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Geisha: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It begins with a very moving moment of ichuime dalbys older geisha sisters death, and rewinds to bring the readerthrough her experinces of geihsa life and what geisha mean in japanesse culture and society.
		Liza Dalby's 'Geisha' is a truly fabulous look into the historical background and changing nature of these women.
		At times the prose tends to read a bit like an essay or dissertation and you get the feeling that she has tried a bit too hard to include pompous and sometimes unecessarily 'flowery' language often with complex and overpowering sentence structures.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099286386 (1088 words)

	Biblio: The Tale of Murasaki : A Novel by Dalby, Liza: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liza Dalby writes a novel based on the life of Lady Murasaki, author of what is often called the first novel, the 11th-century TALE OF GENJI.
		If you're not satisfied with a purchase within 14 days (of receipt), we'll refund the purchase price of the book minus shipping and handling, provided the book is returned in the same condition it was purchased.
		In The Tale of Murasaki, Liza Dalby has created a breathtaking fictionalized narrative of the life of this timeless poet–a lonely girl who becomes such a compelling storyteller that she is invited to regale the empress with her tales.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/17318083.html (403 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Lady of the shining prince
		Liza Dalby talks about the strange and beautiful customs of Japan's golden age, and the woman who immortalized them in a tale of the perfect man.
		Liza Dalby's "The Tale of Murasaki" is a coolly elegant summer read, the kind of book that, like certain Victorian novels, transports its readers to another world -- in this case, 11th century Japan.
		The heroine, who is called by the nickname of her most famous female fictional creation and whose real name is unknown, wrote "The Tale of Genji," a work that holds approximately the same place in Japanese literature that Shakespeare does in our own.
	archive.salon.com /books/int/2000/07/12/dalby (941 words)

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